Women's roundup: With key player out, A&M wears out Duke

Danielle Gant was dehydrated and out of the game and Texas A&M coach Gary Blair was sick about it. The rest of the Aggies made them feel better by advancing to their first regional final.

Danielle Gant was dehydrated and out of the game and Texas A&M coach Gary Blair was sick about it. The rest of the Aggies made them feel better by advancing to their first regional final.

In Gant's absence, Patrice Reado had all of her 17 points and eight rebounds in the second half and point guard A'Quonesia Franklin hit three three-pointers during a critical stretch, sending Texas A&M past Duke 77-63 last night in an Oklahoma City Regional semifinal.

Playing in her hometown, Gant, a first-team All-Big 12 selection and the Aggies' second-leading scorer, had eight points in the first half. But she took more than three bags of intravenous fluid before slowly walking to the Texas A&M bench with 8:18 left in the game, holding a heating blanket.

Franklin's three-point splurge helped push the Aggies' lead from 37-31 to 53-39 with 10:17 left. They led by as many as 16 points and Duke came no closer than nine.

Tennessee 74, Notre Dame 64 -- Candace Parker matched her career best with 34 points and had 12 rebounds in Oklahoma City, pushing top-seeded Tennessee to a regional final for the eighth straight year.

Parker put back Nicky Anosike's miss and then converted a three-point play off a transition jumper to send the Vols into the lead with a 14-0 run early in the second half.

Shannon Bobbitt added a pair of three-pointers as Tennessee built its lead to 60-44.

Notre Dame freshman Becca Bruszewski had 16 points.

Connecticut 78, Old Dominion 63 -- Freshman Maya Moore had 25 points and 11 rebounds and top-seeded Connecticut (35-1) put the game away with a 20-1 run early in the second half to beat Old Dominion (31-5) in the Greensboro Regional.

UConn plays Big East rival Rutgers on Tuesday.

Renee Montgomery added 13 points for the Huskies, who never trailed and shot 47.5 percent from the field in their 14th straight win.

Rutgers 53, George Washington 42 -- Essence Carson scored 25 points for Rutgers (27-6), which raced to an early lead and held off George Washington (27-7) in the Greensboro Regional.